IRENA: Global Atlas for Solar and Wind

Friday, February 15, 2013

The Global Atlas is the largest ever initiative undertaken to assess renewable energy potential on a global scale. The initiative is coordinated by IRENA, and involves 39 countries. It provides high-quality resource maps from leading technical institutes worldwide, and simplified models for evaluating technical potential.

EnerGEO 5th Newsletter

Monday, October 22, 2012

The EnerGEO consortium proudly presents the 5th issue of the project’s newsletter. This newsletter focuses on results of the EnerGEO pilots, the EnerGEO portal as well as an outlook concerning the scenarios to be assessed within the project. It also features our project partner RSA.

Update on the EnerGEO flyers

Update on the EnerGeo-publications

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Halfway July EnerGeo posted an updated list with all EnerGEO publications and links so far on our website. The list of publications can be found in the Results section. This list will be updated when new articles are published.

AGH and ARMINES presented research

Thursday, July 12, 2012

EnerGEO partners AGH and ARMINES presented their research on "Estimating the loss of life expectancy attributable to PM2.5 emissions in Europe with high resolution modeling" during the 6th SETAC World Congress 2012

Land Cover Classification Competition II

Monday, March 26, 2012

Owing to the large amount of disagreement among global land cover products, the creation of a global hybrid land cover product is seen as a major step towards improvement. In that regard, the goal of this competition is to focus on the areas of greatest disagreement among the existing products. On pixels where all three products are classified differently, we need volunteers to classify the pixels with the help of Google Earth.

GEO Wiki Project

Monday, March 26, 2012

The Geo-Wiki Project is a global network of volunteers who wish to help improve the quality of global land cover maps. Volunteers are asked to review hotspot maps of global land cover disagreement and determine, based on what they actually see in Google Earth and their local knowledge, if the land cover maps are correct or incorrect.

Article published

Article published in Elsevier

EnerGEO 4th newsletter

Thursday, October 27, 2011

The EnerGEO project issued their fourth newsletter. This fourth newsletter focuses on the initial results and outlook of the EnerGEO pilots and the Summer School that was held in Salzburg last September, concurrent with the GEO Committee meetings.

GEO newsletter # 13

Earthzine newsletter issue 4

EnerGEO third newsletter

Thursday, May 19, 2011

The third EnerGEO newsletter is published.

This newsletter provides the progress of the project and other relevant issues. If you have not received this newsletter by email we recommend that you subscribe via this website. Then you will automatically be informed on the progress of the project.

Earthzine has issued a newsletter

GEO newsletter # 14

Special Issue

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The planned issue is centered around an integrated spatial / regional systems perspective of providing energy to society. One key tenet is the view that most renewables in the end are directly or indirectly driven by solar energy. Thus the Earth's surface, as the receiving boundary layer where most energy conversions occur, (co-)defines a region's potential for generating energy. Remote Sensing as the means for assessing and monitoring surface characteristics contributes valuable information towards developing sustainable energy systems.

Volume 3, Issue 6 - Earthzine Newsletter

Earthzine has issued a newsletter # 9

IMPLEMENTING GEOSS

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

At a time of rapidly rising world energy demand and high oil prices, the production and use of bioenergy has entered a new era of global growth. Africa, with its warm climate, and abundant natural resources, including large amounts of unused fertile land, has the potential to become an important player in the production of bioenergy. However, efforts to exploit this potential face several challenges. A major technical barrier is the lack of accurate and well-organized data on renewable energy resources, such as biomass data as they relate to land and water availability, competing uses, and processing. (source GEO newsletter #12)

Earthzine - submit an article

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

www.earthzine is an informative scientific journal dedicated to promoting the social benefits of Earth Observation and the utilization of Earth information in planning and policy. They invite interested parties to submit an article for this online journal for the theme issue on disaster management.

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EnerGEO 2nd newsletter

Thursday, October 28, 2010

The second EnerGEO newsletter is published.

This newsletter provides general information about the project and other relevant issues. If you have not received this newsletter by email we recommend that you subscribe via this website. Then you will automatically be informed on the progress of the project.

Earthzine newsletter

First EnerGEO newsletter

Thursday, July 29, 2010

The first EnerGEO newsletter is published.

This newsletter provides general information about the project and other relevant issues. If you have not received this newsletter by email we recommend that you subscribe via this website. Then you will automatically be informed on the progress of the project.

4th GEO European Project Workshop

Thursday, July 29, 2010

In the frame of the upcoming 4th GEO European Project Workshop in Athens, the EnerGEO coordinator (Emile Elewaut) will make a short presentation of EnerGEO AIP-3. This meeting will be on the Thursday 29 April morning session.

Observer at Workshop

Information on GEO consistent methodology

Thursday, July 29, 2010

On 21-22 March Artur Wyrwa from AGH University of Science and Technology went to IIASA i.a. to discuss with Sabine Fuss - the coordinator ofTask 1.3 “Development of a GEO consistent methodology to quantify the environmental costs of energy exploitation” about the currentworks on literature review of environmental costing approaches.

Workshop by EnerGEO partners in Kampala

EnerGEO successful kick off meetings

Thursday, July 29, 2010

The kick-off meeting of the EnerGEO project took place on November 24th, 2009. The project coordinator Mr. Emile Elewaut, from the Netherlands Institute for Applied Scientific Research (www.tno.nl), in the presence of representatives from the European Commission and the GEO secretariat, welcomed 32 people in Utrecht, The Netherlands.